6 Records

Tule Bluet (Enallagma carunculatum) takes its common name from certain species of bulrushes, and indeed, it does tend to prefer densely vegetated lakes and ponds. This species shows substantially more black on the abdominal segments than most similar species, a distinctive feature. The specific name carunculatum refers to a conspicuous pale tubercle on the male cercus (Lam, 2004) (Paulson, 2011). This bluet is rare and local in Maryland with our only modern records from Allegany County (Richard Orr's Dragonflies and Damselflies of Maryland and the District of Columbia). It is ranked as S1 (highly state rare) in Maryland.